Chapter 282: What the Ice Cannot Touch
The air inside the abandoned processing plant was stagnant and freezing. Heavy rusted chains swung gently from the exposed steel rafters, clinking softly in the cold wind.
Reina Frost stood thirty feet away from the quiet engineer. Her silver hair was plastered to her forehead with sweat. She gripped the heavy handle of her massive double-sided battle axe. She did not take a defensive stance. She reached up with one gloved hand and tapped the secure comms unit in her ear.
"Target located," Reina whispered. "Sector Three processing plant."
She immediately reached up and clicked the microphone off. She did not ask for reinforcements. She did not wait for the Captain to coordinate a perimeter breach.
She had found the monster that murdered Lord Commander Vell, and she wanted this fight entirely for herself. The suffocating guilt of the past three days had finally boiled over into pure, concentrated violence.
